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Post subject: Dating Strat pickups
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:04 pm
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Hi,

I have some pickups that came from my brother's early 70s Strat. The number on the bottom of the pups read 8162, can this be taken to mean 1972? I've read that the last digit is usually the one the determines the date. Numbers are 60s era pups were not dated this way AFAIK.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:43 pm
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Yes, for that era, the "2" would indicate 1972.
The other numbers indicate

8 - an operator code (the person who ran the winding machine)
16 - the week that the pickup was wound

sometimes these codes switched places, but there seems to be little ambiguity with your pickups. Do a web search on "Greg Gagaliano" because he figured out the meaning of a lot of these Fender date codes and published them. He's got his info out there on the web.

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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:28 pm
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Early 70's could still have the gray flat work also, it was sometime around 72' 73' they went back using black.

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cvilleira wrote:
Early 70's could still have the gray flat work also, it was sometime around 72' 73' they went back using black.


Thanks guys. I wrote to Greg and am waiting for a response.
And the plates on my pups are the gray ones.

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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:19 pm
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I made a typo with Greg's last name (strike the second "a").

Anyway, here's a link to his guitar publications. There are two articles on Fender Neck Codes, which are important because the same dating scheme was used on pickups (as his 2003 update article mentions).

Let us know what he replies to you.

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2=20 years from 1952

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